Is There a Viral in Bat Caves in Southern Laos?

For more than ten years, scientists in china were sampling bats in caves in southern china to try and find sas like viruses. The sigt they were doing it in is over a thousand miles from woo han. In the molnry, there's been one or two sars like viruses found, but very, very few, and y none of these kind of varuses. So it is almost certainly the case that a varus made its way from somewhere in southern unan, or northern laos, and started the pandemic. But we do have to take seriously the possibility that when they were in those back caves, they picked up avirus.

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